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Bricked Phone?

I went out partying last night, woke up to a crack on my nexus 5 and wouldnt turn on but the led would flash red. I figured it lost its charge. Charge the phone for few hours, phone would turn on and off right away as if it still were not charged. It would than shut off but restart to a screen that said Firmware Update- Please wait while it installs- B100. Nothing would install, it would stay at 0%. So I held the power button and now, it only turns on to the google sign and keeps looping from there. I tried to turn it on in recovery mode but that doesnt work either. My phone was never rooted, bootloader never unlocked and I never put it in debugging. I dont know what to do!

so the ol' 3-button combo doesn't get you to the bootloader?

Yes, it does. Forgot to mention that.

tonytouch311 said:
Yes, it does. Forgot to mention that.
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I don't know what you did, but your phone is not bricked. Hope you have a recent backup. If you can get into the bootloader I'd try a factory reset in recovery. If that doesn't work then you're going to have to unlock the bootloader and try to flash the factory image. None of this may work as idk what you did to your phone, but this is what I'd do.

Is flashing a factory image/unlocking bootloader possible even tho I can't get into the settings menu to turn on debugging option?

tonytouch311 said:
Is flashing a factory image/unlocking bootloader possible even tho I can't get into the settings menu to turn on debugging option?
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Yes, adb and fastboot are not related.
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Are there any guides you all might suggest that are easy to understand?

Ask your friends what happened last night. Sounds like a good party
==**Team Nexus 5 sucks.**==
-Underpowered battery for a 5inch 1080p screen that is non-removable. Weak generic antenna that drops signal. Worst speaker of any device on the market. Cheap plastic build

tonytouch311 said:
Are there any guides you all might suggest that are easy to understand?
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Alright, here. The catch-all solution: flash the factory image as in this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2513701.
Just remember to cd to your adb directory, I made that mistake and almost fainted because I thought my device was totally broken when fastboot devices listed nothing.
dicecuber said:
Ask your friends what happened last night. Sounds like a good party
==**Team Nexus 5 sucks.**==
-Underpowered battery for a 5inch 1080p screen that is non-removable. Weak generic antenna that drops signal. Worst speaker of any device on the market. Cheap plastic build
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Really?? Is this your sig or just something totally irrelevant that you decided to insert into your reply? Do you even own one?

droid_<3er said:
Really?? Is this your sig or just something totally irrelevant that you decided to insert into your reply? Do you even own one?
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It's his sig. Just ignore him.

I was able to flash everything and it seemed successful. But, I can only get as far as GOOGLE and than it keeps rebooting.

tonytouch311 said:
I was able to flash everything and it seemed successful. But, I can only get as far as GOOGLE and than it keeps rebooting.
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If that's the case it sounds like you may have knocked something loose internally when whatever happened that caused the damage to your screen. Possibly a solder point or a cable coming loose.

Opened up the back cover, looks like condensation.....ill leave it alone for a few days and try again.

Reset
tonytouch311 said:
I was able to flash everything and it seemed successful. But, I can only get as far as GOOGLE and than it keeps rebooting.
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Did u do another factory reset after last flash as this may need doing on some phones from what I've watched on good old YouTube...Good luck..

^Why would he factory reset when the phone is wet? You'll short circuit it that way..

The only method of a factory reset I've read about was turning on in Recovery, waiting for the little android, and holding Vol + and Power. Thing is my phone would never get to the little android, just loop on the GOOGLE introduction. Is there another method to factory reset?

tonytouch311 said:
The only method of a factory reset I've read about was turning on in Recovery, waiting for the little android, and holding Vol + and Power. Thing is my phone would never get to the little android, just loop on the GOOGLE introduction. Is there another method to factory reset?
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Turn your phone off. Then hold power + vol down. It should boot into the boot loader. You'll see a "start" Then use the vol rocker to toggle to recovery. Once there push the power button. You should be in recovery. Then use the vol rocker to toggle to factory reset. Then use power to select it.

jd1639 said:
Turn your phone off. Then hold power + vol down. It should boot into the boot loader. You'll see a "start" Then use the vol rocker to toggle to recovery. Once there push the power button. You should be in recovery. Then use the vol rocker to toggle to factory reset. Then use power to select it.
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Thats the method I'm unable to use...I was hoping there might be a string of code I could type into a command prompt being that I can only turn on the phone into the boot loader.

tonytouch311 said:
Thats the method I'm unable to use...I was hoping there might be a string of code I could type into a command prompt being that I can only turn on the phone into the boot loader.
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Try
fastboot reboot recovery
Edit, sorry that's not going to work. Find the stock recovery image. Then try
fastboot boot recovery.img

So I was able to boot in recovery and factory reset, although the problem still persists. I will try and flash all images tomorrow. Thanks for all the help! Happy holidays!

[q] help! My nexus 5 is stuck on the google logo

My nexus 5 froze during use so I forced shutdown. When I turned it back on it stuck and the google logo. I tried to factory reset from fastboot but when i select recovery the screen just goes blank (i don't see the android robot with the exclamation) and I have to manually shut it down. I also tried to unlock the bootloader to flash the factory image but when I select "Yes" to unlock the bootloader the same thing happens (the screen goes blank). Can anyone help with this?

Solodus said:
My nexus 5 froze during use so I forced shutdown. When I turned it back on it stuck and the google logo. I tried to factory reset from fastboot but when i select recovery the screen just goes blank (i don't see the android robot with the exclamation) and I have to manually shut it down. I also tried to unlock the bootloader to flash the factory image but when I select "Yes" to unlock the bootloader the same thing happens (the screen goes blank). Can anyone help with this?
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nothing can do, rma it

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k-fei said:
nothing can do, rma it
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rma?

Solodus said:
rma?
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Try holding the power button down for 30 seconds
Sent from my Nexus 5

jd1639 said:
Try holding the power button down for 30 seconds
Sent from my Nexus 5
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Holding the power button down for 30 seconds has no effect. My problem is that I can't get past the google logo and every time I select recovery mode from fastoot the screen just goes blank and I don't see the android with the exclamation as I should.

Stock? Rooted? Did you use custom rom/kernel before?

Sounds like something corrupted with the internal memory.
RMA time.

Solodus said:
Holding the power button down for 30 seconds has no effect. My problem is that I can't get past the google logo and every time I select recovery mode from fastoot the screen just goes blank and I don't see the android with the exclamation as I should.
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Boot into fastboot while connected to your pc and in a command prompt type
fastboot oem device-info
Maybe your attempt at unlocking the bootloader worked.
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The flash chip (or emmc) is half way dead. There is nothing you can do. Send back the phone to repair.
Tapatalk-kal küldve az én Nexus 5-el

[q] [help]nexus 5 stuck. 5.0.1. Stuck while booting.

Hey there,
I am Nexus 5 user. Recently I updated my phone to Lolipop 5.0.1. At first the phone worked fine. A few days later the background apps started restarting. That was still manageable. A week back the phone started restarting. So I read about in a Google Forum, it advised to delete partition cache from the 'Recovery Mode' . I did so. It worked and phone stopped restarting. Now a week later the problem started again. So I wiped partition cache. But during the process the battery ran out and the phone switched off.
Now when I try to switch on the phone, the Google logo appears and then the phone freezes in the boot animation.
The phone boots into bootloader(power button + volume up + volume down), but when I try to get into Recovery Mode, an android is displayed with a red exclamation mark.
The bootloader is locked, so I can't flash the original image.
Need help to get the phone back.
Additional info about the device:
a. Nexus 5 32GB
b. Lolipop 5.0.1
c. Locked bootloader/ unrooted
d. Still in warranty.

The dead android is recovery mode. When you see that press and hold the power button then press and release vol up. Try a factory reset in there. Note, it will wipe your device so backup first if you can.
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jd1639 said:
The dead android is recovery mode. When you see that press and hold the power button then press and release vol up. Try a factory reset in there. Note, it will wipe your device so backup first if you can.
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This isnt't working. Holding the power button and volume button together does nothing. Holding only the power button puts the phone back in boot loop. Any other suggestions?

ShobhitJethani said:
This isnt't working. Holding the power button and volume button together does nothing. Holding only the power button puts the phone back in boot loop. Any other suggestions?
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I think you're going to have to unlock the bootloader and flash the factory image. If that doesn't work then you have a hardware issue.
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jd1639 said:
I think you're going to have to unlock the bootloader and flash the factory image. If that doesn't work then you have a hardware issue.
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The phone isn't turning on. Any way I can unlock the bootloader without turning it on? Also, USB debugging is also turned off.

ShobhitJethani said:
The phone isn't turning on. Any way I can unlock the bootloader without turning it on? Also, USB debugging is also turned off.
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If it doesn't turn on there is nothing you can do. You need to be able to boot into the bootloader. Usb debugging doesn't matter. You don't need it on to run fastboot commands.
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jd1639 said:
If it doesn't turn on there is nothing you can do. You need to be able to boot into the bootloader. Usb debugging doesn't matter. You don't need it on to run fastboot commands.
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The phone turns on. But goes into boot loop. I can boot into bootloader. But the bootloader is locked. How do I unlock it?

ShobhitJethani said:
The phone turns on. But goes into boot loop. I can boot into bootloader. But the bootloader is locked. How do I unlock it?
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Google 15 second adb install xda. That'll setup adb and fastboot on your pc. Then boot the device into the bootloader, open a command window on your pc and then with your device connected via usb cable type into the command window
fastboot oem unlock
See this, http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=47156064
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jd1639 said:
Google 15 second adb install xda. That'll setup adb and fastboot on your pc. Then boot the device into the bootloader, open a command window on your pc and then with your device connected via usb cable type into the command window
fastboot oem unlock
See this, http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=47156064
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Thanks for the link, but the link says to unlock the bootloader, for that I need the phone to get pass the boot animation. Which is the main problem.

ShobhitJethani said:
Thanks for the link, but the link says to unlock the bootloader, for that I need the phone to get pass the boot animation. Which is the main problem.
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Will the device boot into the bootloader, press and hold power and vol down? If it does you can unlock it and flash the factory image
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jd1639 said:
Will the device boot into the bootloader, press and hold power and vol down? If it does you can unlock it and flash the factory image
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The device does boot into bootloader. But when I get into recovery mode, an android with red triangle and exclamation is displayed. How do I remove it and get back into the normal recovery mode?

ShobhitJethani said:
The device does boot into bootloader. But when I get into recovery mode, an android with red triangle and exclamation is displayed. How do I remove it and get back into the normal recovery mode?
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You don't need to get into recovery. Boot into the bootloader, unlock it, then flash the factory image. All that is done in the bootloader, not recovery.
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There is little confusion here @ShobhitJethani. Let's make things clear.
Bootloader mode (or fastboot mode) is when you press and hold volume_down+power keys.
Recovery mode is when you select the recovery mode with the power key in the bootloader mode.
To enable the menu options in stock recovery you have to PRESS and HOLD the POWER key and while you do that you just PRESS the VOLUME_UP key and then you RELEASE the VOLUME_UP key and then you can RELEASE the POWER key too.
What you did is starting to press and hold volume _up and power keys at the same time which is wrong.
Also, to unlock bootloader you just have to put the phone to bootloader mode. You dont have to do anything special before that.
I hope you now understand.

I somehow managed to remove the tamper flag and then gave it to the service center. They flashed KitKat on the phone. And now I also have updated my phone to 5.1 OTA. Thanks to everyone for trying to help me.

Nexus 5 - Stuck in boot loop. No recovery mode. Cannot Unlock Bootloader.

Hi Guys, My Nexus 5 is stuck in a boot loop where it wont even get past the Google logo.
I have been searching around and have tried a number of things but nothing is working for me. Here's what I have tried so far:
- I thought the power button might be stuck down so I stripped and cleaned the whole thing. Button seems to be working OK but still in loop.
- Tried clearing cache through recovery mode. Once in recovery mode the power+vol up button will not bring up menu. It then reboots after 5 seconds and the loop starts again.
Currently I am trying to flash an OEM version onto the phone but the Bootloader is locked. Working through the guide here. I can connect to the phone. Execute the command 'fastboot oem unlock' but then when I attempt the reboot I get stuck back in the loop.
So yea that's where I am at so if anyone has any solutions for me that would be much appreciated.

Try nexus tool kit to unlock bootloader.

cukla said:
Try nexus tool kit to unlock bootloader.
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Do you mean the Android SDK Platform-tools or maybe the Nexus Root Toolkit? In either case the result is the same. As soon as the phone needs to reboot to unlock the bootloader it goes back into the loop and hence can not complete the unlocking.

Spark9999 said:
Do you mean the Android SDK Platform-tools or maybe the Nexus Root Toolkit? In either case the result is the same. As soon as the phone needs to reboot to unlock the bootloader it goes back into the loop and hence can not complete the unlocking.
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It's your power button then nothing to do with nexus root toolkit.

I'm having the same problem, power button seems to work as it does not reboot itself
It stops in the Google logo for about 10 to 15 seconds, after which it restarts and does it again
When I do unblock the bootloader by adb and I will execute the command to reinitiate it back again to the screen with the Google logo with the bootloader blocked and thus be infinitely with the logo for 10 to 15 seconds
Anyone have any idea what that might be?
Sorry for my english.

Bricked after bootloader unlock?

Hey there,
Tldr bottom
While trying to apply unlock bootloader, root, and custom rom my phone, I encountered a few problems. I bought this phone in china and this gave me so many headaches. Firstoff no gapps so that's why I'm doing all this, but twrp and firmware is a pain in the ass. I unlocked the bootloader and installed twrp. But I couldn't get my phone to boot into twrp, it would only go to erecovery.
I have tried installing twrp and not booting but going straight to twrp, as to avoid the overwrite. It did not work. I tried many many flashes with different twrp, none worked. Not even the Chinese ones. So I figured it might be because I'm running emui 5 on Nougat.
I tried to downgrade, which was a hassle. Dload did not work and finnaly I found that the pc huawei suite had downgrade avaliable. So I tried that but got stuck at the screen in the attachment. I encountered this before so I went to fastboot and flashed twrp and booted up.
Still cant boot into twrp, only erecovery. I Thought I had downgraded, but when booting up I saw it was the old UI and in the 'about phone' it still said emui 5, android 7. So I did it all again. But this time I first locked my bootloader. So I locked my bootloader and tried to downgrade... This time it booted up without problems but it was still emui5 android 7. Odd.
So unlocked my bootloader again and now I'm stuck at this screen. It won't let me boot recovery or fastboot. It does not even respond to vol up+vol down + power. Force update. Nothing works. It boots to this screen everytime.
imgur.com/gallery/gOJ9E
Tldr: unlocked bootloader for second time after failed downgrade. Now its bricked.

Rommco05 said:
You be able enter to fastboot? Turn off phone, plug phone to pc/usb and turn on with holding vol-
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Nope, I can't enter Fastboot, nor recovery, nor force a dload update. I get the 'honor' welcome screen followed by the screenshot in my main post.
(Your device has been unlocked and can't be trusted.
To learn more, visit: ....................
Your device is rebooting now)
Thanks for replying, hope you can still help me.

iloos said:
Nope, I can't enter Fastboot, nor recovery, nor force a dload update. I get the 'honor' welcome screen followed by the screenshot in my main post.
(Your device has been unlocked and can't be trusted.
To learn more, visit: ....................
Your device is rebooting now)
Thanks for replying, hope you can still help me.
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It takes sometime to enter fastboot mode when your phone is powered off. Try again.
Switch off the phone
Press volume down button
While pressing it plug your phone
Keep the volume down button pressed.
It takes around 10-15 seconds to show up. Sometimes it takes even more time but eventually you'll be able to enter

iloos said:
Nope, I can't enter Fastboot, nor recovery, nor force a dload update. I get the 'honor' welcome screen followed by the screenshot in my main post.
(Your device has been unlocked and can't be trusted.
To learn more, visit: ....................
Your device is rebooting now)
Thanks for replying, hope you can still help me.
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Can you boot to erecovery?

suhel28 said:
It takes sometime to enter fastboot mode when your phone is powered off. Try again.
Switch off the phone
Press volume down button
While pressing it plug your phone
Keep the volume down button pressed.
It takes around 10-15 seconds to show up. Sometimes it takes even more time but eventually you'll be able to enter
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I will keep trying but I have already done this many times without success.

adriansticoid said:
Can you boot to erecovery?
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Nope

iloos said:
Nope
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Just to clarify, I was pertaining to the Erecovery, not TWRP recovery. You can't boot to that?

adriansticoid said:
Just to clarify, I was pertaining to the Erecovery, not TWRP recovery. You can't boot to that?
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Indeed, I can noy boot to erecovery. I can also not boot to fastboot. I only ger the honor loadong screen and then the screenshot from above.

iloos said:
Indeed, I can noy boot to erecovery. I can also not boot to fastboot. I only ger the honor loadong screen and then the screenshot from above.
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How about HiSuite? You tried that?
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Yeah man, it won't work. Sorry for the late reply.
adriansticoid said:
How about HiSuite? You tried that?
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iloos said:
Yeah man, it won't work. Sorry for the late reply.
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Have you fixed it now?
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adriansticoid said:
Have you fixed it now?
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Nope, Still stuck at the screenshot in the first post. whatever I do. Plugged in, not plugged in. Holding up, down, or up and down. Tried everything. (I think)

iloos said:
Nope, Still stuck at the screenshot in the first post. whatever I do. Plugged in, not plugged in. Holding up, down, or up and down. Tried everything. (I think)
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How about the service center?
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Take it to customer service

PalakMi said:
Take it to customer service
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adriansticoid said:
How about the service center?
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Yeah I guess that'll be my last option. Maybe the only one.

iloos said:
Yeah I guess that'll be my last option. Maybe the only one.
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Let's hope for the best

iloos said:
Yeah I guess that'll be my last option. Maybe the only one.
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Let us know what happens.
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Make sure you post about the results after

can anyone help me. my phone wont boot, itried to go from emui 8 india to emui 8 china. but when it asked for bootloader unlock code, i entered and it said password wrong. so i manually tried to unlock bootloader. it ewas succesful but now phonw wont boot. it stuck in phone is now booting screen. cant enter fastboot, recovery or dload. i tried to change location in hwota 8. someone please help me.